STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. --A St. George man who was a teenage victim of a notorious bias attack once again finds himself on the wrong side of the law, after police arrested him on marijuana possession and resisting arrest charges Monday.

Alie Kamara, 23, of the 100 block of Belmont Place, was 17 years old when a group of white men attacked him with a metal pipe in Stapleton in "retaliation" for Barack Obama's being elected the country's first black president.

On Monday, at about 9:15 p.m., police spotted him rolling a marijuana cigar behind one of the Park Hill Apartment buildings in Clifton, and when officers moved in to arrest him, he struggled and flailed his arms, court papers allege.

Police found another four zipper bags of marijuana in a vest pocket, court papers allege.

Back on Nov. 4, 2008, a group of four white men attacked Kamara in an Election-night rampage that ended with the suspects running down another man, whom they mistakenly believed was black, with a car.

The four suspects -- Brian Carranza, Michael Contreras, Bryan Garaventa and Ralph Nicoletti -- were charged with bias crimes and pleaded guilty to a federal charge of racially motivated interference with voting rights. They each received federal prison terms.

Last year, he was arrested twice more – he received time served for an unlawful marijuana possession violation from May 14, and he pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct in exchange for a conditional discharge and two days of community service following a farebeating and marijuana possession arrest on Sept. 5, the law enforcement source said.

He now faces charges of resisting arrest, fifth-degree criminal possession of marijuana and unlawful possession of marijuana, according to information from District Attorney Daniel Donovan's office.